Pakistan Navy ship in Bangladesh after over 50 years
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A Pakistan Navy ship arrived at Bangladesh’s Chattogram (Chittagong) Port last Friday on a four-day “goodwill” visit, the first such occurrence since 1971, amid a dramatic turnaround in bilateral ties after nearly two decades of hostility.
Analysts said the development signalled Pakistan’s attempt to establish its presence in the Bay of Bengal and that this had security implications for eastern India and Myanmar.
“Upon arrival, the ship was warmly received on behalf of Commander Chattogram Naval Area,” the Bangladesh Navy said in a statement. “This goodwill visit is expected to strengthen further the friendly relations between the Bangladesh Navy and the Pakistan Navy.”
Such engagements were not frequent even during pro-Pakistan regimes in Dhaka after Sheikh Mujib’s assassination or during BNP rule, analysts said. Pakistan has stepped up military engagements with Bangladesh, though its efforts to expand business ties with the country have yielded significant results.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
